More details on Halo 2: Anniversary for Halo: Master Chief Collection

Today more information was revealed about Halo 2: Anniversary, the graphically enhanced version of the 2004 Xbox first person shooter that will be included as part of the Halo: Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One console.

As part of the annual Rooster Teeth Expo in Austin, Texas, Microsoft's 343 Industries and developer Certain Affinity revealed that Coagulation will be one of the six remastered Halo 2 maps that will be included in the Anniversary version. The game will also feature a number of returning game types along with new ones like Ricochet, Race, SWAT and Infection.

Perhaps the biggest announcement was that Halo 2: Anniversary will get a new vehicle, the Gungoose, which is basically a weaponized version of the ATV-like Mongoose.

Halo: Master Chief Collection, which will collect Halo 1, 2, 3 and 4, will be released for the Xbox One November 11. It will also come with a live action digital feature, Halo: Nightfall, and a code that can be used in late December to access the multiplayer beta for the upcoming game Halo 5: Guardians.

I've never owned a gaming console but fascinated by Kinect I want to buy one.
Q1. Are there enough Kinect supported games to enjoy the experience ?
Q2. What game types(like sports, fighting, fps, multiplayer etc) are playable with the Kinect
Q3. Multiplayer local and online ?
Q4. How is the control aspects of games like FPS since there is no mouse or touchpad to control the character in 3d environment. Since I've played halo on pc with a gamepad and that was very much terrible.
Thanks I just love to play halo multiplayer on lan with my friends on laptops and online too only thing I am afraid to buy a console is control aspects of few games types.

I had a hard time playing halo 4 too with that... Sell out of a game. So much like a COD or black ops game.. Lost the halo charm. But I gave it a chance. It is still fun. And the story line is actually kinda cool.

This is going to be AWESOME! I have to admit, I'm really looking forward to this.

The coolest thing about it has to be the fact that they are pricing it at the usual 59.99. When I first heard about it, I absolutely thought that it wouldn't go for any less than 100, considering your basically getting 4 games in 1. Having Halo 1-4 with (switchable) upgraded graphics and all the goodies, plus some added content, ion one disc... One word: SWEET! BRING IT ON!

Doesn't really matter.
Key is confidently believing your own bullshit.
Then again, all halo fans ought to appreciate the cold hard reality of statistics. Check how quickly the player base dropped off from halo 4. Faster than any other release in the series.
My own opinions aside, that is all anybody needs to see to make the inference. Care to differ or does my slushy mouthful outweigh yours?

"Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works."

Every freaking Xbox article its Sony people bitchin or PC people bitc hin. Xbox too expensive halo should be for PC, titanfall sucks , Kinect sucks the tv features suck rare sucks... Everyone shut the hell up and let me enjoy my Xbox that I spent 499 on proudly

I think its quite sad that Halo Master Chief Collection isn't on PC also,it started with PC and should be Xbox and PC exclusively! Many people have consoles and pcs but enjoy playing FPS on PC because of control aspect using mouse,really sad for people who long awaiting PC collection franchise for Halo

I am really sad for people who want Halo on PC. What's wrong with them. Halo needs to be an Xbox exclusive. What would be the reason to buy an Xbox of you could play it's exclusives on PC. I love my Xbox one and want as many exclusives

It is about HALO, not about xbox. HALO is awesome and it should be accessible to more gamers. MS uses halo just to sell his xbox. I am huge halo fan, and I was able to play just Halo 1 and 2. I just isnt fair!

That's where I disagree. There are maybe 1 or 2 games that are Xbox exclusives that I like. I'm not paying 500$+ for hardware just to buy a few 60$ games. Just not worth it. Especially when they decide that the next Xbox will not have backwards compatibility for a game a buy now...

Advanced gaming on PCs is a support nightmare. Sincere there are so many possible combinations of CPU, GPU, OS, input devices, etc., a company really has to commit on going support to the PC platform, which often isn't worth it for the number of copies sold. An Xbox One is a known configuration.

In my opinion, one of the reason why Microsoft doesn't make much Xbox games for PC is piracy. For a popular game like Halo2, you will expect that most players will just go to tor or TPB to illegally download for free. Whereas, consoles give more consolation towards developers that their games are relatively harder to crack and thus they have profits to make the next game. Look at what happened to Crytek, they're dying but I'm not sure of the reasons behind thou.

If microsoft wants to prove their statements about "caring for PC gaming" then they will eventually release it for PC, if not then Valve will eventually succeed in moving PC gaming to linux, because Microsoft obviously doesn't care, no matter what their PR guys say.

Games like battlefield series\star craft\Diablo\wow\league of legends\etc don't run or don't run natively on Linux. Linux\steam os still has a lot of hurdles to overcome. Hl3 exclusive for Linux will never happen and if it does it wouldn't make a dent in the windows gaming market. Also best believe hl3 is going to be ported to ps4\xbone. Steamos is cool for steamboxes\gaming boxes,which is a pretty small market compare to comsole.Outside of steamos ports, not many games are develop just for for Linux or even ported to Linux.

343 said thing like "We are listing to our PC fans, and will give them what they want", that was in a conversation about the Chief Collection and whether or not its coming to PC. So we could very well see it coming to PC, there was other bits hinting towards a release a few months after the Xbox One version. If that never happens, Microsoft is trying to get "One Windows", meaning all their devices work on ONE OS, they already did it with Windows 8, being a PC and Tablet compatible OS. They also made it so if you make a App for Windows Phone, it automatically makes ita self compatible with PC, Surface, And Xbox. So eventually Xbox will run off the same OS as PC, meaning PC gamers can play Xbox Games... And... Vise versa... (Obviously not very well in vise versa). So one day Halo will be on PC, I can guarantee it.

Because of WAF(Wife Acceptance Factor). She likes games like Zumba Fitness World Party, Just Dance, Dance Central that'll be never be on a PC.

Vs. a specced up PC. I'll never hear the end of it because of the total price. (i7, high/mid decent video card) <-- the point is I am the only one that'll be enjoying games, so might as well maximise to the whole family the EF(Enjoyment/Entertainment Factor). :)